Thursday, September 21, 2006
Current mood: sad

A bummer day. Haven’t heard back about my merchant application. But sadder…

Alex had two scary seizures early this morning and I spent the day at the vet’s with her. It turns out her bladder cancer has metastasized and it’s now in her brain. I’d been warned that bladder cancer is ‘messy’ and tends to go all over, but I thought it would go to nearby organs. I hadn’t understood that it gets into the bloodstream and lymph system and can go anywhere next. Wish it hadn’t been the brain. :(

Worse than that, we got blood tests back for Buddy today… he’s been really up and down lately… and it turns out he has liver failure and will only be with us a short, sad while longer. I wish we could’ve had Buddy in our lives much longer than this, but at least for a few months back there, he was feeling good enough to do the “Buddy Dance” for us. I hope these final days won’t be too terrible for him.